URSULA LAM, A PHILADELPHIA
SOCIAL
WORKER, FINISHES FIRST AMONG
OPEN WOMEN IN 19:28.

Timothy ONeill and Ursula Lam
Finish First in the Philadelphia Bar
Association Charity Run

BY MANNY POKOTILOW

PHILADELPHIA, PA--Everyone who participated in the 25th annual
Philadelphia Bar Association 5K Charity Run and Walk was a winner.
The event, which was held on May 16, 2004 on West River Drive,
raised more than $90,000 for the beneficiaries: the Support Center
for Child Advocates and the American Diabetes Association. The
temperature was approximately 68 degrees at the start of the
race and 70 degrees at the end. All of the participants had a
great day to run and were able to relax and enjoy the food, drinks,
and gifts provided by the sponsors of the race.

This year the Philadelphia Bar Association was joined not
only by long-time sponsors Wawa, Inc., The Legal Intelligencer,
JuriStaff, Inc., UpDate Legal, USI Colburn Insurance Service,
and Veritext, but also by new sponsors FirsTrust and Iron Mountain.

The first person to cross the finish line was Timothy ONeill
of Springfield (Delaware County), a graduating senior at St.
Joes Prep who will attend Princeton University in the Fall.
Timothys time was a very quick 16:13. The first woman in
the race was Ursula Lam, a 24-year-old social worker with the
Social Welfare Program of Philadelphia. The second to cross the
finish line was Neill Clark of Berger Montague who finished first
among the members of the Bar in a remarkable time of 16:44. Mary
Tomich, running for the Dilworth Paxson team, again finished
first among female members of the Bar in a strong 19:49. She
narrowly beat 25-year-old Sian Fernas who was running for the
Goldberg, Miller and Rubin team.

Both the male and female sides of the competition were extremely
competitive this year with 572 finishers and close to 700 registered
runners.

As the race started, 23-year-old Matt Gioffre, running for
the Eisenberg Rothweiler team, and 16-year-old Evan Cantu-Hertzler
broke to the front of the pack, closely followed by former winner
of the race Rick McGarry, and Neil Clark. At a quarter-mile all
five were bunched with a new runner, Brian Hall, also of the
Eisenberg Rothweiler team.

At a half-mile, Joerg Dickert joined the group of five and
went in front of the lead pack with Cantu-Hertzler and Matt Gioffre.
A seventh runner, 25-year-old Jason Bull, also joined the pack
of six. As the group approached one mile, McGarry and ONeill
went to the lead followed by Clark.

By the time the group had reached one-mile, McGarry was in
the lead passing the one-mile point at 5:06 followed by ONeill,
Bull, Clark, Gioffre, and Dickert. The group continued to change
leads with ONeill going to the front of the group by the
turnaround which he passed in eight minutes. McGarry followed
in second place, Bull in third place, and Clark in fourth place.
As the four continued, ONeill continued to build a lead
which was approximately 40 yards over McGarry by the time the
group reached the two-mile point. Bull was 20 yards behind McGarry
followed closely by Clark. Clark slowly began to pass Bull and
then finally overtook McGarry to finish second overall and first
in the Bar competition. McGarry finished nine seconds after Clark
followed by Jason Bull in 17:01.

A VERY HAPPY TIMOTHY
ONEILL (#1159) GOES
THROUGH THE FINISH LINE CHUTE FIRST WITH
THE CLOCK SHOWING 16:13 TO FINISH FIRST
OVERALL.

In the womens competition, Tomich and Fernas went
out early with Dana Kolesar of Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen
& Pokotilow, Ltd. and Carmen Harvey of Montgomery, McCracken,
Walker & Rhoads, LLP. By the time the group reached the first
mile, Carmen Harvey was in first place followed by Fernas and
Kolesar in third and Tomich in fourth place. Ursula Lam was a
good distance behind the four.

Tomich reached the turnaround at 1½ miles in first
place followed by Harvey, Fernas, Kolesar, and Lam, who began
to gain on the group.

Lam continued to increase her pace, slowly passing Kolesar,
Harvey, and finally Tomich.

Fernas shadowed Tomich the entire way and could not quite
catch her at the end. Harvey finished a close fourth followed
by Maryrose Blaney in fifth and Kolesar in sixth.

In Company Team competition, sponsor USI Colburn finished
first. The team had three first place finishes by Dennis McGee,
Ashlee Sutter, and Elizabeth Sutter in their respective age classifications.
Sponsor Parente Randolph finished second. The team was led by
the first place finish of Gene Hatenjuk. Sponsor American Lawyer
Media finished third and was led by a first place finish of Melissa
Nann.

In the Legal Team competition, Duane Morris won, followed
by the Law Offices of General Counsel in Harrisburg in second
place and the Eisenberg Rothweiler team in third place.

Duane Morris was led by the first place performances of William
Harris and Arthur Momjian in their respective age groups and
the second place finishes of Dennis McCarthy and Sharon Caffrey
in their age groups.

The Office of General Counsel was led by former Attorney General
Jerry Gornish, a former partner at WolfBlock and now Chief Counsel
of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement Board.
Other team contributions included a second place finish by Michael
Budin in the 60-64 Open age group and Harriet F. Withstandleys
top finish in her 55-59 Bar age group.

Eisenberg Rothweiler finished in third place among the 51
teams and was led by Brian Hall and Matt Gioffre, both of whom
had first places in their age groups. Samantha Desposito had
a sixth place finish for a team total of eight points.

In the postrace ceremonies, Jeffrey Kall, a teacher at the
Moffett School in Philadelphia, was honored for having run all
25 of the Philadelphia Bar Charity Runs. He was given a jacket
specially made by the organizers of the race to commemorate the
occasion. The oldest runner in the race was George Blyn, 86,
who finished second among men 80 and over. The oldest member
of the Philadelphia Bar Association who completed the race was
Philip Shiekman of Fox Rothschild LLP who has run substantially
all of the races including the first Philadelphia Bar Charity
Run in 1980, which was then known as the Philadelphia Bar-Diabetes
10K.

Timothy ONeill, 17, the winner of the race, was the
youngest to have won the race to date. He ran this race for the
first time. Lam is still in her first year of running. Last year
she was one of the walkers in the event finishing in a time of
1:16:18. She finished almost an hour faster this year! For Clark
and Tomich, it was their sixth consecutive win in the Bar Association
competition. For Clark the first three were in the 2-mile competition
which was replaced by the single race distance of 5K. Tomichs
prior wins were in the 10K races.

The 25th running of the Philadelphia Bar Association Charity
Run/Walk also had an individual Bar competition which was won
by Neill Clark of Berger Montague and Mary Tomich of Dilworth.
It was the sixth consecutive time that both Neill and Mary won
the Bar Association competition. Alan Feldman, Vice-Chancellor
of the Bar Association, ran the 5K race and Chancellor Gabe Bevilacqua
and Vice Chancellor Andrew Chirls worked as volunteers and participated
in the awards ceremony.

The sponsors of the Run provided a smorgasbord of food, drinks,
and gifts for all of the runners that participated in the race.
The weather also cooperated to provide a comfortable temperature
for running and also relaxing after the race while enjoying all
of the goodies given out by the sponsors.

The organizers are very grateful for the considerable support
given by the legal community and in particular the support given
by all of the volunteers who helped make this race the best ever.

In addition to the awards given to the first place winners
of each of the age groups, all of the participants were treated
to smoothies and water bottles courtesy of FirsTrust, iced-tea
and fruit drinks courtesy of Wawa, key chains courtesy of Iron
Mountain, and fruit, soft pretzels, key chains, and stress balls
courtesy of Veritext. Pens and flashlights were distributed by
USI Colburn and towels were distributed by UpDate Legal. JuriStaff
distributed water bottles and the Philadelphia Bar Association
distributed special commemorative mugs.

It was a memorable 25th year for the Run!

Finally, a warm thank you to all of the volunteers who worked
at the race and made it possible for everyone to enjoy, to our
sponsors, and to our terrific participants!